Literature and humanities

transgressions towards a decolonial and antiracist education

Abstract

In 2023, the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Goiás (FE/UFG) celebrated 55 years of a history marked by memories of confrontations and resistances, but also of many achievements. It was the stage for the first strike during the period of the Military Dictatorship in Brazil and has been a meeting place for discussions among individuals connected to social movements, civil society, students, and faculty from other faculties, indicating its profile of struggle. In this sense, this article records part of how we have been developing confrontational activities, in the present time, both inside and outside the classroom, and for this purpose, we consider it pertinent to share the experience that brought together Literature and Human Sciences in the debate on the novel Ponciá Vicêncio, by Conceição Evaristo, developed with students from the 3rd period of the Pedagogy course of the Institution. Drawing on theoretical assumptions from Candido (1995), Cara (2019), hooks (2017, 2019), and Rufino (2021), among others, we demonstrate how literature can foster fruitful debates, exchanges, encounters, and disagreements, representing a decolonial and anti-racist transgression. The reading of Evaristo's work constructed and unveiled "writing-lived experiences" in all of us, transgressing imposed standards and showing us that insurgencies do not end and are essential.